Feeling and thinking: the role of affect in social cognition

Introduction: the role of affect in social cognition Joseph P. Forgas Part I. Fundamental Issues: The Interplay of Affect and Cognition: 2. Nonconscious and noncognitive affect Robert Zajonc 3. Challenge and threat: the interplay of affect and cognition Jim Blascovich and Wendy Berry Mendes 4. Affect and appraisal Craig A. Smith and Leslie D. Kirby Part II. The Informational Role of Affect: 5. Cognitive and clinical perspectives on mood dependent memory Eric Eich and Dawn Macauley 6. Some conditions affecting overcorrection of the judgment-distorting influence of one's feelings Leonard Berkowitz, Sara Jaffee, Eunkyung Jo and Bartholomeu T. Troccoli 7. Mood as input: a configural view of mood effects Leonard L. Martin 8. Affective forecasting and durability bias: the problem of the invisible shield Dan Gilbert Part III. Affect and Information Processing: 9. Mood and general knowledge structures: happy moods and their impact on information processing Herbert Bless 10. A connectionist approach to understanding the impact of mood on cognitive functions of assimilation and accommodation 11. The role of different processing strategies in mediating mood effects on cognition Joseph P. Forgas Part IV. Affect and Social Knowledge Structures: 12. Self-organization in emotional contexts Carolin Showers 13. Prologues to a unified theory of affect, attitudes, stereotypes, and self-concept Anthony Greenwald 14. Interpersonal emotions, social cognition, and self-relevant thought Mark Leary 15. Emotional response categorization Paula Niedenthal 16. Integration and conclusions Joseph P. Forgas.